gort

gort

1. Pronunciation spelling of got
   • 1898, Barry Pain, The Curick:

     When you've bin a-bed fur weeks, gort rhoometics crool,

Variant of grut.

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: gort
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

gort m (uncountable)

1. pearl barley
2. grit

• grut

• → Sranan Tongo: groto

• gerst

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gort

1. second-person plural preterite of gären

• IPA^(key): /kɔr̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔr̥t

gort n (genitive singular gorts, no plural)

1. boasting, bragging

   Synonyms: grobb, mont, raup, skrum

• gorta (“to boast, to brag”)
• gortari (“boaster, braggart”)

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of garraí.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡʌɾˠt̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡɔɾˠt̪ˠ/^[1]

gort m (genitive singular goirt, nominative plural goirt)

1. field
2. (in phrases) orchard
3. (standing) crop
4. the Ogham letter ᚌ (g)

• garraí
• páirc

• fíonghort (“vineyard”)
• scuab eich ghoirt (“field horsetail”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gort”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /kɔrˠʃt̪/

From Old Irish gorte, from goirt (“starved”). Cognate with Irish gorta.

gort f (genitive singular gorta, plural gortan)

1. famine

Derivative of Etymology 3 ("field, enclosure") via a change in gender.

gort f (genitive singular gorta)

1. the letter G in the Ogham alphabet: ᚌ

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of gàrradh.

gort m (genitive singular goirt, plural goirt)

1. (Islay) field

   Synonyms: achadh, pàirc, raon

2. enclosure
3. (standing) crop

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gort”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN